Exhibitions in Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

A new Schmidt Prize commission by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña: a collaborative 'quipu of encounters' on the water crisis, linking communities in Chile and LA.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

Immersive environments by Julian Charrière on water systems and planetary fragility, including a new commission for the inaugural Schmidt Environment and Art Prize.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Photographer, filmmaker and Pikes Peak racer Jeff Zwart's four-decade life with Porsche, told through his images, films and historic cars in The Vault.

Fowler Museum at UCLAFree

Three South Asian artists (Suchitra Mattai, Jagdeep Raina, Swapnaa Tamhane) use textiles as counter-monuments memorializing overlooked communities.

Autry Museum of the American West

Works from the Autry's Native American collections explore Knowing, Creating and Transference, curated in part by three contemporary Plains Indian artists reflecting on their traditions.

Petersen Automotive Museum

LA artist Joshua Vides hand-paints black outlines onto real cars in a mechanic's garage scene, flattening them into what looks like a 2D sketch.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Immersive exhibition on horror cinemas cultural impact, with props and costumes from Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and more, across six themed chambers.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Family-friendly look at how filmmakers create movie zombies, set in a playful pretend cemetery with an interactive animatronic puppet by Spectral Motion.

Petersen Automotive Museum

A chronological timeline of record-setting automobiles from the postwar era to today, tracing how aerodynamics and powertrain design chased raw speed.

Norton Simon Museum

Traces the rivalry between San Francisco's purist and Los Angeles's experimental schools of postwar California photography.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

Japanese American artists, photographers and designers whose lives were upended by wartime incarceration, and the postwar work that followed.

Wende MuseumFree

Co-curated with a NASA historian, this show pairs Cold War-era and contemporary artworks with artifacts like a full-scale Sputnik-1 model on the Space Race and cosmos in art.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Over 100 objects from the Oscar-winning director's films, including storyboards, concept art, creature models, props and on-set photographs.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Betye Saar's Huntington-commissioned site-specific installation: a 17-foot vintage wooden canoe with found objects including birdcages and antlers.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Explores the design dialogue between American automakers and Italian coachbuilders, pairing American mechanical strength with European styling.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Traces Waymo's evolution from Google's self-driving car project to a leading autonomous vehicle company, showing the tech turning sci-fi into reality.

California Science CenterFree

17,000-sq-ft exhibition with 25+ interactive activities exploring the science of sports and movement, featuring LA-based mentor athletes; on view through the 2028 Olympics.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Tongva artist Mercedes Dorame's commissioned installation on Southern California's freshwater springs: photographs, painting, sculpture, ceramics and a Tongva-poetry soundscape.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Outdoor sculpture in the Stroll Garden of charred Sierra Nevada timber and glazed ceramic teardrops, on forest destruction and regrowth.